Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires director of schools to report a student who was formally truant and now enrolled in a home school to juvenile court; establishes that unexcused absences accumulated by a transfer student at their former school or LEA during the school year in which they transfer follow the student to the receiving school or LEA to determine habitual truancy, to implement a progressive truancy plan, and to identify cases of educational neglect. - Amends TCA Ti...

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The bill directs the director of schools to report any formally truant student who is now homeschooled to the juvenile court in the student’s county. It also mandates that unexcused absences a student accumulates before transferring count toward truancy at the receiving school or LEA. Judges may fine or order community service for parents if a child has five or more unexcused days, aiming to improve truancy tracking and address educational neglect.

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